Leadership Day 2010 – The final list!

Well, after sorting through all of the Leadership Day 2010 posts, tracking down incorrect URLs, deleting a few nonexistent items, and reviewing some attempts to recycle old posts, I believe that I have the definitive list of 114 total posts. You can see the updated Google spreadsheet or read through the roughly categorized list of posts below (Twitter IDs are in parentheses where available).

David Bill (@dcinc66). Requirements for change. What is needed to institute change in a school? In my mind, they include the following – vision, understanding and persistence.

David Fleming (@mrdfleming). Reflections on Leadership. What I expect from administration regarding technology use in school.

Diane Lauer (@MrsLauer). Stepping Up and Staying Relevant. Three years ago I sat in the audience listening to a speaker chide a group of school administrators with the prompt, “How many of you are on Facebook?” My hand rested in my lap, my eyes surfed the room. There were very few hands raised. The gauntlet was thrown. “Are you willing to become dangerously irrelevant?”

Joanne Robert. Take Risks, Trust Your Staff & Inspire. A letter to administrators from teachers “tired of waiting” giving advice for a low-tech, baby step, non-threatening approach to high-techness; it really sounds like begging but then I’m frustrated with the slowness of it all. 🙂

Joe Bires (@joebires). Learn by Doing. Schools should practice what they preach; learn by doing.

Jonathan Ferrell and Britt Pumphrey (@jonathanferrell, @brpumphrey). Moving Forward. Two young teacher’s perspective on what it means for a leader to be moving forward in the realm of technology and education.

Michelle Baldwin (@michellek107). Leadership Is… In thinking about leadership, I wanted to be less preachy than I usually am, and instead concentrated on qualities of good leaders.

Mike Meechin (@innovateed). Tough Conversations – Have Them! Calling all education reformers! I encourage you to find those in charge and have them sit for the tough conversations. The movement begins here, with us, and these conversations.

Pam Moran (@pammoran). Staying Relevant as Leader and Learner. I fear being dangerously irrelevant so I work hard to stay relevant as leader and learner- with a little help from friends, both F2F and virtual.

Renee Moore (@TeachMoore). Dear Angela. A heartfelt letter to one my former students, now an elementary principal, encouraging (not shaming) her to explore what technology integration can do for their school, especially for our high-poverty, digitally disadvantaged students.

Scott McLeod (@mcleod). “No thanks. I choose to do nothing.” Are school administrators guilty of ‘willful blindness’ when it comes to the societal transformations that surround them?

Selena Ward (@thetechtiger). I Have Some Hope. This is my yearly letter to my principal.

Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach (@snbeach). Leadership Day: A Day Late. Leaders “kill their TV” to make time for Design Thinking: Inspiration, Ideation, and Implementation to reculture and shift their school/district.

Tim Gwynn (@tgwynn). How About Some Walk To Go With That Talk? When it comes to technology in schools, leaders are talking about it all around us, but the talk doesn’t mean much until they step up and start using the technology as well.

Tim Stahmer (@timstahmer). What Do You Do All Day? Does the leadership in your school have an “insanely great” approach to their role like Steve Jobs?

Todd Williamson (@twilliamson15). Consistency, Vision, and Bravery. Three necessary values for any educational leader, in any century, with or without technology.

Tony Baldasaro (@baldy7). Reflections on 2st Century Leadership. Reflected upon the 21st century leaders and offered three traits of high quality leaders, one of which a former boss of mine did not have.

Maryna Badenhorst (@marynabadenhors). Visionary Leadership and e-learning. The roles and responsibilities of schools in the integration of e-learning: Where will we hide in this e-learning storm that is brewing on the horizon?

Taber Akin. Leadership Day. A small list of technology successes in ISD 191.

Professional Development

Cheryl Oakes (@cheryloakes50). Leadership Day 2010 call to action be part of this! A group of administrators and technology coordinators went into action, collaborated and designed a summer professional workshop for any administrator involved in evaluating staff, in Maine, presented by local teachers who are already demonstrating the NETS-S standards in their classrooms.

Jon Orech (@jorech). More Than Just a Spark. The start of a new school year brings optimism and new ideas; how do we sustain them long term?

Kevin Hodgson (@dogtrax). Leadership Day 2010: A Webcomic Message. I went the route of creating a webcomic to add a touch of humor to the message that teachers need the support of administrators (and sometimes, administrators need a little help from their teachers)

Beth Still (@bethstill). ISTE NETS for Administrators: How Do You Measure Up? This post goes through the five NETS for Administrators and provides some insight from the perspective of a teacher as well as provides a jumping in points to help administrators become tech-savvy.

Doug Johnson (@blueskunkblog). CODE 77Rubrics for Administrators. 10 Rubrics to help the brave administrator judge his/her competence with technology use in schools.

Teaching & Learning

Alynn Coppock (@ACoppock1). Driving Toward a New School Year. After reading Drive by Daniel Pink, I was inspired to blog about this thought-provoking read and how it relates to leadership and the 1:1 environment.

Amanda Dykes (@amandacdykes). Time To Step Up. I am not a leader, far from it, but I have a big mouth and not afraid to use it!

Bridgette Wagoner (@B_Wagoner). Pragmatism is Not the Answer, Part II: Tech Integration. We are so concerned with fast, practical results that we’ve forgotten that real, substantive, lasting change happens as a result of changing the underlying belief systems of individuals.

Carl Anderson (@anderscj). An Invitation Letter to Parents. In this post I show how online Personal Learning Networks (PLNs) can be leveraged to effect change in your school and increase parent involvement in support of student, teacher, administrator, and systemic learning.

Catherine Victoria Parsons (@vgloucester). Make Learning a Quest. Learning should be more like questing in an MMORPG – embrace the process and not the target.

Cathy Stutzman (@Stutz01). Collaboration and Lemon Pancakes. What would school be like if every teacher could engage in meaningful conversations with school administrators about curriculum and educational pedagogy and if every student could learn alongside teachers and administrators?

Edna Sackson (@whatedsaid). Learning Principles. Know what you believe about learning, before you think about implementing change!

Eye On Education (@eyeoneducation). What role does technology play in differentiated instruction? Some administrators feel that if classroom teachers use technology in their classrooms that their classrooms will “automatically” differentiate. What role does technology play in the differentiated classroom?

Jonathan Cassie. Technology and Education 1.0. The Greeks got it right; our use of technology has to catch up with what they taught us 3000 years ago.

Josie Holford (@JosieHolford). More Educator Luddites Please. A call to reclaim Luddism and to build a class of educator Luddites who can learn and lead against the grain of narrowing definitions, factory school and standardization and toward what it means to be an educated citizen in a networked world.

Michael Shepherd (@smichael920). Curriculum Design. What does our pedagogy look like? What would you like learning to be like?
At a recent staff meeting we asked these questions of staff and the result was more questions! But questions that have helped us move the curriculum forward.”

Paul Bogush (@paulbogush). Acoustic Teaching. It’s the songs we write and sing as teachers that make a difference, not the instruments we play them.

Rich Haglund. The 1908 ISTE NETS, or, how chalkboards revolutionized teaching. The ISTE NETS-T could have been written 100 years ago, and teachers who haven’t mastered their subject don’t have room in their brains to contemplate using (or letting students use) new tools to teacher (or for students to learn) the material.

David B. Cohen (@CohenD). Tech It From The Top! If you’ve lived this long, and you believe in lifelong learning as one of your professional principles, then it’s time to do more than use email and Facebook: isn’t it about time to retire the “aw, shucks, I can’t use any of that new-fangled technology stuff the kids use” excuse?

Frank Buck (@drfrankbuck). Leadership Day 2010: Why Blog? For the principal who wants an easy way to communicate with faculty and staff that is fun for both reader and writer, a blog is the way to go.